LAST DOCTOR'S VISIT AND VISIT W/ THE JUDGE

LAST DOCTOR'S VISIT AND VISIT WITH THE JUDGE

Today, we were picked up at 10:00 to go see the Narcologist, you see, here in Russia, everyone who is seeking for a job is required to be cleared by the Narcologist in order to receive clearance. When we got there the place was packed, we waited until our translator registered us and went to pay for the visit. They reviewed our lab results that we brought from the US. We were required to go through a 10 panel drug test, among a full blood and urine check-up. Once we were allowed to go in, we were asked several questions and then we were cleared. Once we were through with all the medicals we felt relieved, we thought, we are now one more step closer to completion. We were then taken back to the hotel, and we were informed that at 2:15 we were going to be picked up to go see the judge. Well, the coordinator, showed up a little bit late. We were told that he was at the adoption center, we imagined that he maybe was trying to register another family. Once we were picked up, the coordinator had to go pick up some papers needed for the judge. Once we reached the court building, we were told that we had to wait for the judge. We were also told that the meeting was going to take place in her chambers. What was our surprise that when she saw us, she said that we were going to meeting in one of the courtrooms. We were so nervous, we did not know whether to make something out of it or not. Well, we went back downstairs to wait for her. Once the judge came in she asked for our passports. She immediately saw that we were born in Central America and she started bombarding us with questions. She wanted to know whether we had renounced to our country of birth (citizenship wise), we told her that we were never asked to do that. She was not very happy with our answer. We also told her that we have been living in the US for more than 20 years, and that the US was our home country. Our coordinator asked her a question about our Psychiatrist’s credentials, and she kept saying nyet, nyet, nyet. We knew something was wrong, but we could not ask any questions. At the end she got up abruptly, she said she had to review the documents first, before she could issue a court date and walked out on us. We were in shock, trying to analyze what had just transpired. We expected a court date, and, instead of getting one we were informed that there were additional things that we had to take care of before we could be considered for a court date. I was really upset and bothered. After all the paperwork we had to get ready for the preliminary court hearing and for court, she was changing things around without a valid reason, just because she felt like it. We know have to wait until next week (hopefully) to get an additional list of documents (whatever she feels like requesting, in addition to everything we have already turned in) and if we are lucky, we will get a court date. At this point, we don’t know when we will be returning and that its heart breaking. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do. Please continue to pray for us, we are not even close to finishing our journey in order to bring our little girl home. Tomorrow we head back to Moscow to take the flight back home. I will post more tomorrow. Until then…